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5 Dollars - Charles III Milan Rastislav Štefánik
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1987-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Public Seal of Niue rendered in fine relief at the center of the field, depicting a floral emblem within a decorative circular frame surmounted by a royal crown. A banner below the seal bears the inscriptions ATUA and NIUE TUKULAGI, flanked by crossed torches. The legend FIVE DOLLARS arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 2024 positioned at the base. The design is executed in proof finish with deeply mirrored fields contrasting frosted devices. |
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| Mintage | 2024 - Proof - 119 |
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik died in a plane crash on 4 May 1919 while returning to Czechoslovakia — a country he had helped found but never lived to govern. The circumstances remain disputed: the Italian aircraft was fired upon by Czechoslovak ground troops near Bratislava, and whether that fire was accidental, the result of miscommunication, or something more deliberate has never been conclusively settled.
Niue's licensing of Štefánik for a bullion-adjacent commemorative follows a well-worn pattern of the island's mint program, which routinely issues silver rounds on Central European historical figures under its sovereign authority.